Caliphs and merchants : cities and economies of power in the Near East (700-950) /

"Caliphs and Merchants: Cities and Economies of Power in the Near East (700-950) offers fresh perspectives on the origins of the economic success of the early Islamic caliphate, identifying a number of previously unnoticed or underplayed yet crucial developments, such as the changing conditions...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bessard, Fanny (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Oxford studies in Byzantium.
Subjects:	Islamic cities and towns > Middle East > History > To 1500. Islamic Empire > Economic conditions. Islamic Empire > History > 750-1258. Empire islamique > Conditions économiques. Empire islamique > Histoire > 750-1258. Middle East. HISTORY. Archaeology. SOCIAL SCIENCE. Islamic cities and towns Economic history Urban economics Islamic Empire Middle East To 1500 700-999 Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

The historical context
A stamp of authority
New perspectives on urban economic planning
Artisans to producers
Reshaping marketplaces
Money supply and currency
Islamifying the economy
The evolution of labour patterns
Twilight of the clerical and landowning elite, rise of tuǧǧār.